Intel plans crypto-walled-garden for x86

[Steven Bellovin]

On Sep 13, 2010, at 11:58 57PM, John Gilmore wrote:

> http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars
> 
> "In describing the motivation behind Intel's recent purchase of McAfee
> for a packed-out audience at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel's Paul
> Otellini framed it as an effort to move the way the company approaches
> security "from a known-bad model to a known-good model." Otellini went
> on to briefly describe the shift in a way that sounded innocuous
> enough--current A/V efforts focus on building up a library of known
> threats against which they protect a user, but Intel would live to
> move to a world where only code from known and trusted parties runs on
> x86 systems."
> 
> Let me guess -- to run anything but Windows, you'll soon have to 
> jailbreak even laptops and desktop PC's?
> 

I've written a long blog post on this issue for the Concurring Opinions legal blog; see http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2010/09/a-new-threat-to-generativity.html


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb





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